Advanced Critical Care Nursing, 2nd Ed.

Learn to effectively address life-threatening and potentially life-threatening patient conditions, with Advanced Critical Care Nursing, 2nd Edition. Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), this comprehensive, nursing-focused text centers on the clinical reasoning process as it helps you comprehend, analyze, synthesize, and apply advanced critical care knowledge and concepts. The book is organized within the structure of body systems along with synthesis chapters that address patient conditions involving multiple body systems. Numerous illustrations and graphs plus unfolding case studies further aid your understanding and help you apply text content. In all, Advanced Critical Care Nursing is the must-have resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting.

New to this Edition

NEW! Updated information throughout reflects the latest evidence-based content as well as national and international treatment guidelines.

NEW! Streamlined content places a greater focus on the need-to-know information for today's high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings.

NEW! Expanded coverage of emerging and infectious diseases and multidrug-resistant infections keep readers up to date with the most topical diseases, such as the Zika virus.

NEW! Additional content on alternative settings for critical care now includes the eICU and remote monitoring.

UNIT X: SPECIAL PATIENT POPULATIONS32. Caring for the Immunocompromised Patient33. Caring for the Patient in the Immediate Postoperative Period34. Caring for the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient35. Caring for the Pediatric Patient in an Adult Critical Care Unit36. Caring for the Critically Ill Elderly Patient37. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient with a Neuropsychiatric Disorder38. Caring for the Bariatric Patient